Tag: farming

How the migrant women farmworkers who put food on our tables are organizing for a better life after the pandemic.

"This is important because the wider scientific literature has found that pesticide pollution can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment."

A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.

“Vaccinating our essential farmworkers will ensure the safety of their workplaces, their homes, their families, our food supply, and the vital services that they perform.”

“Climate change, droughts, population growth, and pollution are likely to make water scarcity issues and pricing a hot topic for years to come.”

It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!

“This dual use of the land adds a layer of efficiency that wouldn’t be there. You start seeing layer after layer of benefit, benefit, benefit."

They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.

Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.

Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But at one time, she wanted to leave farming far...